Oigaeette and oheroot machine



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J.H. DUNN. GIGARETTE AND GHEROOT MACHINE. No. 542,615. Patented July 9, 1895.

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CIGARETTE AND GHEROOT MACHINE.

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CIGARETTE AND GHEROOT MACHINE.

No. 542,615. Patented July 9., 1895.

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J. H. DUNN. CIGARETTE AND GHEROOTMAGHINE. No. 542,615 Patented July 9, 1895.

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JAMES H. DUNN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOUISA ALLEN, OF SAME PLACE.

CIGARETTE A ND CHEROOT MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 542,615, dated July 9, 1895.

Application filed November 16, 1894- Serial No. 528,983- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. DUNN,ot' the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigarette and Oheroot Machines, of which the following is a specification.

lWIyinvention relates to an improvement in cigarette and cheroot machines in which pro- Io vision is made for feeding the wrappers to the rolled filler and rolling them onto the filler while the latter is held substantially against movement other than a rotary movement about its own axis and subsequently discharging and trimming the cigarette or cheroot.

A practical embodiment of myinvention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the machine in front elevation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical section from front to rear; and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail sectional views in planes from front to rear, showing different positions of the forming and rolling devices at different stages of the operation.

Thesupporting-frame consistsof a bed-piece A, supported upon uprights a a of suitable shape and form to afford bearings for the several operative parts. A main drive-shaft B is mounted in suitable bearings, in the present instance at the rear of the machine, and is provided with a drive-wheel b for receiving power from a suitable source. (Not shown.) The drive-shaft B is further provided with cams b and b the former for operating the compressor and the latterfor operating the rolling-table.

The rolling-table is provided with a table portion 0, a depressed portion 0, and a rearward raised portion and is secured to the upper end of one arm 0 of a vibrating lever, the opposite arm 0' of which is in position to be engaged by the cam 11 to rock the table 5 forward and backward. In the present instance I have shown the said table-operating lever as pivoted on a shaft 0 The apron D extends from the front edge of the table portion O, along over it and over the depressed 5o portion 0, and is secured at its rear edge to the raised portion 0 of the table, sufficient slack being given to the said, apron to permit it, when left'free, to fall into the depressed portion 0' of the table, forming a pocket, as indicated in Fig. 5.

The compressor consists of an angle-blade E, extending transversely across the rollingtable between the table and the apron D, and is mounted at its ends in rocking adjustment in a pair of vibrating arms 6, pivoted on the shaft 0 and fixed to rock with the arm e',extendingat an angle to the arms e and in position to engage the cam b. A retractingspring 6 holds the compressor-operating arm e in engagement with its cam, and a retracting-spring 0 holds the arm 0' of the tableoperating lever in engagement with its operating-cam. The compressor-blade E is provided with a tail-piece e, which, as the com pressor is advanced, engages an abutment o. 7:) on the bed-frame A, thereby causing the angle-blade E to tilt, so as to throw one of its arms tightly over the filler, as indicated in Fig. 3. A retracting-spring e serves to rock the compressor-blade back into its normal position when it is carried rearwardly by its vibrating supports e.

The tobacco which is to form the filler is fed along by an endless apron F and finally between the apron F and a shorter apron F, and as it is advanced from between said aprons F and F it is cutoff by a knifef in such quantities as may be desired, the portion cut 0E being permitted to fall into the pocket into the apron D while the latter is in 8;; the depressed portion 0 of the rolling-table. The means for advancing the material to form the fillers and for cutting it off at proper intervals to be received on the apron which is to roll it may be of any well-known or approved form and form no part of my present invention, except so far as they provide a practical mechanism for distributing the fillers at proper intervals upon the apron D.

The wrappers which are to be automati- 5 cally rolled about the fillers are fed into a position to be caught between the apron and filler by means of an endless belt G, which passes along, in the present instance, from left to right at or near the front of the machine,over and in proximity to the table O when the latter is in its normal or forward ICO position. (Shown in Fig. 3.) The apron G is extended in a snbstantially-horizontal plane for a considerable distance before it reaches the rolling-table, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, for the purpose of providing ample room for arranging thereon the wrappers to be advanced to the rolling-table. In the present instance I have provided guide-rollers g and g at the left and right hand of the front of the machine for determining the horizontal stretch of the apron, the said apron leading from the guide-roller 9 back to a tightening-roller g thence downwardly and beneath a drive-roller g thence to a guide-roller g thence to the guide-roller g heretofore referred to. The drive-rollerg for actuating the belt Gis in gear with the guide-wheel 9 fixed to rotate with a sprocket-wheel g driven by a corresponding sprocket-wheel h on the shaft H, extending at an angle to the drive-shaft B and receiving motion from said drive-shaft B at the proper intervals in the following manner: The shaft His provided with a friction disk or pulley h, which may be adjusted longitudinally on the shaft and the periphery of which is in position 'to come into frictional contact with a sector 7L2 of a disk fixed on the drive-shaft B. By this arrangement the shaft H, and hence the drive-belt G, may be advanced a greater or lesser distance during each revolution of the shaft B by simply shifting the friction-pulley It, so as to contact with the face of the sector It farther from or nearer to its axis.

Before reaching the position where they are caught between the filler and rolling-apron the wrappers have their front edges gummed by means of a gum-applying disk or wheel I, driven by a sprocket-chain i from a sprocketwheel t" of the same size as the sprocket-wheel h and on the same shaft H. The chain 2' also drives a short upper endless apron K, which is located horizontally along and in proximity to the upper face of the wrapper-carrying belt G, so as to hold the wrappers flatly down against the belt G up to the point where they advance over tne rolling-table. The gum is distributed to the disk I by a distributingdisk 1' in contact with a supp1y-roller2' which is rotated in contact with the gum in a reservoir L. The roller i is driven bya short belt i leading from a pulley t on its shaft to a pulley t on the shaft of the disk I. Up to this point the operation of the machine is as follows: The rolling-apron being held in the position shown in Fig. 5 and the compressorblade at .the limit of its rearward stroke, a portion of the material to form the filler is dropped onto the apron as its rests within the depressed portion of the rolling-table. After this has taken place the compressor-blade is advanced and rocked into the position shown in Fig. 3, rolling the filler up the forward incline of the depressed portion and compressing it into position to receive the wrapper in the bight of the apron. Just before this has .table when the latter reaches the position shown in Fig. 4.

As the rolled cigarette with its wrapper thereon is discharged from the rolling-table it falls into position to have its ends trimmed by mechanism provided for that purpose, as follows: A pair of, rollers M and M, geared together so that one M shall turn more slowly than M, receive between them the wrapped cigarette as it falls from the rolling-table and direct it onto the heads of the pair of knife blade stocks at m, (see Fig. 1,) where it rests' until said knife-blade stocks with their blades are rocked rearwardly by the advance movement of the vibrating arms 6, which carry the compressor-blade. The rollers M M are driven by the sprocket-chain m in engage ment with a sprocket-wheel b on the driveshaft B and with a sprocket-wheel m on the shaft of the roller M. The knife-blade stocks on m are pivoted to a suitable support on the main frame and are actuated in the direction to cut by means of springs m m The vibrating arms 6 have pivoted thereto a springactuated dog m which as the arms 6 rock rearwardly into their normal position passes the ends of the knife-blade stocks m m with out affecting them; but when the arms 6 are advanced into the position shown in Fig. 3 to compress a filler preparatory to receiving its ICC wrapper the dog M will engage the lower end of the knife-stocks mm and will rock the said stocks in a direction to throw the cuttingblades rearwardly, and in so doing will permit a previously-wrapped cigarette to drop from between the rollers M M onto a pair of stationary cu'rved cutting-blades m m arranged to coact with the blades carried by the stocks m m, and as the vibrating arms 6 approach the limit of their advance stroke the dog m will escape front the knife-blade stocks and will permit the latter, under the pressure of their actuating-springs, to rdck with a quick stroke forwardly into the position shown in Fig. 3, thereby trimming simultaneously the opposite ends of the cigarette. When the cigarette has been thus trimmed, it is free to fall into a receptacle of any wellknown or approved form for removing it from the machine.

It is obvious that slight changes might be resorted to in the construction and operation of the several parts herein described without departing from the spirit and scope of my rolling apron carried by the table and form-.

ing a pocket for the 'filler in the depressed portion, the compressor having a movement bodily through space, for engaging the belt and rolling the filler up the forward incline of the depressed portion into position to be wrapped, and a rocking movement on its axis for compressing the apron snugly around the filler and holding it against bodily movement through space as the wrapper is rolled around it, means for feeding the wrapper to the cigarette while so held and means for imparting said movements to the compressor, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, a bed frame provided with an abutment, a reciprocating rolling table, an apron carried thereby, a compressor for engaging the apron, having a movement bodily through space and a rocking movement on its axis, the said compressor adapted to be engaged by the abutment when moved for: wardly for engaging the apron and holding it snugly around the filler, means for feeding a wrapper to the filler while so held and means for imparting said movements to the compressor, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination, a reciprocating rolling table, an apron carried thereby, a compressor having a movement bodily through space and a rocking movement on its axis, the said compressor being in position to engage the apron and hold it snugly about the filler and means for presenting a wrapper to the apron between 1the 1compressor and table, substantially as set ort i.

5. In combination, a rolling table provided with a depressed portion, a rolling apron carried by the table and adapted to rest within the depressed portion to form a pocket therein, a compressor in position to engage the apron to wrap it about the filler, means for swinging the compressor forwardly to roll the filler along the table, means for presenting a wrapper to the apron between the compressor and table in a path transverse to the movement of the rolling table and means for swingin g the table rearwardly for rolling the wrapper around the filler for forming the cigar ette, substantially as set forth.

6. In combination, a rolling mechanism, means for operating it, an endless carrier extending transversely across the path in which the rolling mechanism moves and an endless belt for holding the wrapper flatly against its carrier as it approaches the rolling mechanism, substantially as set forth.

7. In combination, a rolling mechanism means for operating it, an endless belt carrier extending transversely across the path in which the rolling mechanism moves, an endless belt for holding the wrapper flatly against its carrier as it, approaches the rolling mechanism, a gumming mechanism in position to apply gum to one edge of the wrapper as it advances between the said belts and means for operating the belt at intervals, substantially as set forth.

8. In combination, a rolling mechanism, a drive shaft for actuating it, a wrapper carrier for presenting the Wrappers in proximity to the rolling mechanism, a drive shaft for operating the wrapper carrier and a sector and disk connection between said drive shafts for imparting a step by step movement of the one under the continuous rotation of the other, substantially as set forth.

9. In combination, a rolling mechanism, comprising a reciprocating rolling table, an apron, and a compressor means for presenting a wrapper to the rolling mechanismfirimming bladesin position to receive the wrapped cigarette as it falls from the rolling mechanism and means carried. by the compressor for actuating the blades and means for reciprocating the compressor and rolling table, sub stantially as set forth.

10. In combination, a rolling mechanism, comprising a rolling table, an apron and a compressor means for presenting a wrapper to the rolling mechanism, a pair of rollers for receiving the wrapped cigarette from therolling mechanism, spring actuated trimming blades in position to receive the cigarette from between said rollers and a dog carried by the compressor support for actuating the trimming blades in one direction, substantially as set forth.

11. In combination, a reciprocating rolling table, a rolling apron, an endless wrapper carrier arranged to move in a path transversely to the movement of the rolling table, and means for operating the table, the apron and the wrapper carrier, the said rolling table being arranged to pass beneath the upper part of the wrapper carrier, substantially as set forth.

12. In combination, a rolling mechanism, means for presenting a wrapper to the rolling mechanism, a pair of rollers for receiving the wrapped cigarette, and means for imparting a rotary movement to the rollers, one of the said rollers being caused to rotate faster than the other for imparting a rolling movement to the wrapped cigarette, substantially as set forth.

JAMES H. DUNN.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, R. B. SEWARD. 

